eyeSight gets $4.2m for gesture technology
Doing ordinary tasks with the swipe of your hand is about to become an even bigger part of everyday life. At least that’s the plan
Doing ordinary tasks with the swipe of your hand is about to become an even bigger part of everyday life. At least that’s the plan
Microsoft has acquired VideoSurf — a startup company founded by four Israeli entrepreneurs — for a reported sum of $70 million, in an effort to
Controlling patient flow could be the answer to halting jam-packed ER departments. According to researchers in a new joint study by Ben-Gurion University of the
Israel’s Solaris Synergy is the Best Solar company in the world, according to the Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA). The award-winning Solaris is renowned for
The Yissum Research Development Company, the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has come up with an environmentally-friendly, biological solution for purifying
Photo by Dror Galili Excitement is running high in conservation circles in Israel, after the discovery of a rare frog thought to have been extinct
Mayors of five major American cities as well as senior policymakers are now in Israel on an education seminar that could lead to bilateral cooperation.
Prominent researchers from China and Israel are taking part in a conference on condensed matter physics, starting tomorrow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at
It’s a who’s who list of actors, producers and television executives. From Patricia Arquette to Joe Pantoliano, Matthew Modine to Stephen Baldwin, a whopping 21
Electric car venture Better Place announced that it has secured $200 million through a Series C equity financing from a consortium of top-tier investors and
Senior physician Dr. Adi Weissbuch at Kaplan Medical Center recently helped save the life of an Iranian woman — by email. According to a report
Israeli actress Alona Tal has joined the cast of the new political thriller, Broken City, according to the Variety entertainment news site. Alona Tal (www.imdb.com)

Tel Aviv holds the title of being a fashionable city. Now, for the first time since the 1980s, this city by the sea is set
BBC Radio’s World Routes program has announced it will record selected concerts at this year’s 12th Jerusalem International Oud Festival, which gets underway this Thursday.
IsraAID, the Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid, will be honored the ‘Luminary Award’ at the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry New York’s annual